Nehemiah 9:1

Overview - Nehemiah 9
A solemn fast, and repentance of the people.
The Levites make a religious confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness.
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Nehemiah 9:1  (King James Version)
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
 


Now
On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty- second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their covenants.

twenty
Leviticus 23:34 Leviticus 23:39 ; 2 Chronicles 7:10

of this month
8:2

children
Judges 20:26 ; 2 Chronicles 20:3 ; Ezra 8:23 ; Esther 4:3 Esther 4:16 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Joel 1:13 Joel 1:14 ,
Joel 2:15-17 ; Jonah 3:5-8 ; Acts 13:2 Acts 13:3

earth
Joshua 7:6 ; 1 Samuel 4:12 ; 2 Samuel 1:2 ; Job 2:12